CALL TO PRAYER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 3

CALL TO PRAYER

The bells of England's famous Yorfi Minster are ringing out over the gum trees of Australia's Never Never Land] and calling Australian, soldiers tdj> prayer. Chaplain J. W. Budge, oi Adelaide, is touring Northern Australia in a specially designed mission) truck and projects the song of the bellaj from a gramophone • record through; loud speakers. After "church" he puts on, a musical programme ranging; from hymns to swing hits. Also he; relays from a dual-wave receiver radio, programmes of interest, puts on . a picture show from a 16mm. projector, distributes books, magazines, letter, cards, and a robust straight-from-the-shoulder Christianity. The truck he designed himself after long experience of the bush. It has cupboards, deepsprung settee, with reading lamp, tabla^ oil stove, stainless steel sink with »; \ tap—a comfortable travelling , home. The Australian soldier is Christian in outlook and in living even if he doe* not normally attend church, he says. ■ Many are outside the Church and th« Church is the poorer for that,- . His . area is 950 miles long by, 400 miles yid» - ~,